Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAN 2023年1月 亞博匯 58 IN FOCUS 15,000-seat arena, the first of its type in Singapore with not a lot of regional competition for that type of arena. It will be the first time Singapore will have been able to host an event at that scale and in that kind of environment ever, so it really brings a new capability to market with A-List entertainers able to perform there. And then there will be a new signature hotel with a lot of MICE space. Generally with IR 2, the premise is a little bit more intimate, a more exclusive energy compared to IR 1, so we’ll deliver a lot more with a slightly different flavor to the existing IR. BB: Why is this expansion so important for the company? PT: Well the arena model certainly worked for us in Macau and we’ve seen it work around the US as well. We think as these customers change and become long-stay and evolve to the lifestyle driven experiences, I think that arena plays really well to what we’re doing here. The intention will be to deliver constantly evolving programming to give people more reasons to come and stay. One week they might be coming to see Bruno Mars and the next it might be the NBA. We’ll be able to change the customer journey via these signature experiences every few weeks. In terms of hotel capacity, it’s no secret that this hotel is always under quite heavy demand, so to deliver more rooms with a slightly different flavor I think can be very valuable. Likewise, given the demand we’re seeing in MICE, to offer a more KOMA is one of the recently opened restaurants at Marina Bay Sands. KOMA是濱海灣金沙最近開業的餐廳之一。